An MP with Tunisia’s Nidaa Tounes party announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to support Defence Minister Abdelkarim Zbidi in his presidential bid in September. Fatma Al-Masadi told...

Tunisia’s biggest political party Ennahda named a candidate for presidential elections on Tuesday, the first time the moderate Islamist party has put up a nominee for the post since...

Tunisia’s former president announced on Tuesday his intention to run for the office in early elections scheduled for next fall, Anadolu Agency reports. Moncef Marzouki said in a radio interview that he...

Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki said he is considering running for the presidency for the second time based on his party’s nomination. “My party has decided to nominate me...

African migrants have sent a distress call after Tunisian authorities left them behind on Libyan borders suffering harsh weather conditions. The Tunisian authorities expelled these Ivorian migrants and sent...

The chairperson of the Shura Council of Ennahda Movement, Abdelkarim Harouni, said that the movement’s Shura Council has not yet decided on its candidate for the upcoming presidential elections...

The candidacies for Tunisia’s early presidential elections began to be submitted yesterday at the headquarters of the Independent High Authority for Elections in Tunisian capital Tunis and will continue...

Presidential elections will take place on 15 September 2019

Tunisia’s President Beji Caïd Essebsi died last Thursday in a military hospital in the capital Tunis. He was 92 years old and had been in ill health. Within hours,...

Tunisian Acting Parliament Speaker Abdelfattah Mourou said yesterday that he might run in the upcoming presidential elections, Arabi21 reported. His remarks came during a radio show following the death...

Tunisia’s liberal prime minister, Youssef Chahed, will run for president in an early election expected on Sept. 15, his Tahaya Tounes party said on Wednesday, making him one of...

The Tunisian Independent High Authority for Elections announced on Tuesday that it received 1,592 applications for parliamentary elections due in October. During a press conference held in Tunis, Nabil...

Missiles on Monday hit Tripoli’s only functioning Mitiga airport which remained closed to air traffic, causing chaos and fear among passengers, witnesses said, Reuters reports. Authorities announced the closure...

Tunisian people react as they wait for the arrival of convoy carrying the coffin of late Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi during his state funeral the eastern suburb of Carthage and Tunis

Tunisia bid farewell to its first democratically elected president Beji Caid Essebsi on Saturday at a state funeral attended by foreign leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron and Qatar’s...

The President of the Independent High Authority for Elections, Nabil Baffoun, has said that Presidential elections will be held within 90 days. Baffoun stated that an amendment is to...

Essebsi died at 10.25 this morning at the military hospital in Tunisia where he was admitted after his health deteriorated.

The registration process for the legislative elections scheduled to be held on 6 October will start in Tunisia on Monday. Meanwhile, the Tunisian President, Beji Caid Essebsi, has not...

For the first time in more than two weeks, President Beji Caid Essebsi has reappeared in a video posted by the Tunisian presidency on Monday, during a routine meeting...

Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda party, will stand in the next parliamentary elections in October, a move widely seen as an attempt to seek a leadership position...

Leaders of Ennahda movement have accused the party’s executive office and its president, Rached Ghannouchi, of bias in favour of his allies and “lack of respect for the will...

Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement announced on Tuesday that its Head, Rached Ghannouchi, could run for the next legislative elections in October. “The movement’s basic law stipulates that its head will...

The Tunisian minister of youth and sports has been criticized for sparking confusion between her country’s flag and the Turkish flag, which prompted a number of activists to demand...

Update at 15.30 BST: The number of bodies recovered by Tunisia after a ship packed with migrants sank off its coast last week has risen to 82. More bodies...

A specialist Tunisian court has delayed a corruption hearing for potential presidential candidate Nabeel Al-Qarawi, his defence team announced yesterday. Reported by Anadolu, the defence team said that the...

The Tunisian public prosecutor announced the imposition of a travel ban on media figure Nabil Al-Qarawi and his brother, Monday, in addition to freezing their bank accounts as a...

A leader in Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, Lotfi Zitoun, has officially announced his resignation as a political advisor to the movement’s head, Sheikh Rached Ghannouchi. “Today (Monday, July 8, 2019),...

Tunisia have advanced to last eight in the Africa Cup of Nations after beating Ghana 5-4 on penalties at Ismailia Stadium in Egypt yesterday, as reported on Anadolu Agency. ...

Tunisia’s Coast Guard recovered on Saturday the bodies of 14 African migrants who drowned when their boat carrying more than 80 people sank after setting off for Europe from...

Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has banned the wearing of the niqab, the full face veil, in public institutions for security reasons, an official source said on Friday, Reuters...

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi yesterday announced that the country’s state of emergency would be extended for another month. According to a statement by the Presidency of the Republic,...

At least 81 migrants have gone missing as their boat capsized off the Tunisian coast, a relief official said on Thursday. “The Tunisian coastguard on Wednesday rescued five irregular...